For many Black women, spirituality and religion are anchors for their lives. Studies show they are some of the most devoutly religious folks in the U.S., and that is beneficial in unexpected ways. One ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They called him “Sin Killer,” though no one knows how much sin he really washed away. Perhaps one of the best known Black ...

In the wake of the tornadoes that ravaged Tuscaloosa, Ala., CNN’s Wayne Drash encountered an African-American preacher who explained why he was willing to grant the late Gov. George Wallace’s appeal ...

The relationship between Black American art and the Black church are hard to separate because there’s so much that we learned. Do you feel like that helped you prepare for the role? It was definitely ...

Indeed, the best of African-American preaching is three-dimensional – it is priestly, it is sage, it is prophetic. So what led to the rise of the black preacher and shaped King’s prophetic voice? In ...

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In 1934, the Washington Post called Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux the "best known" Black man in America. They weren't wrong. By that year, Michaux, preacher and founder of the Gospel Spreading ...

They called him "Sin Killer," though no one knows how much sin he really washed away. Perhaps one of the best known Black preachers during his time, he never lived in Fort Worth but is part of our ...